Italy’s Dope Stars Inc. enters our musical world with their debut EP, a fence-riding mix, equal parts new wave, Marilyn Manson glam, and Billy Idol fervor.
From Malta comes Corkskrew and their debut electro-pop release. Siren Diane Micallef’s vocals are poignant and filled with wonderfully imaginative subtext.
Despite its tiresome themes of mutilation and zombification, this lives up to the band’s legacy by combining vicious technicality with bang-worthy stomps.
The Police, The Clash, and Sublime have tasted of the Two-Tone fruit, so why not a thrash band? Because they throw it in as thoughtlessly as a movie sample.